LuckNews Changelog

What's new in LuckNews 4.1.1

Apr 5, 2022
  • This is a small update, fixing a problem in the animated article transitions.

New in LuckNews 4.1 (Mar 2, 2022)

  • There is now support, through iCloud, to synchronize your subscription collection and which which articles have been read. Keep desktop LuckNews in sync with LuckNews on mobile devices.
  • Along with the Cloud support, there are also small changes and improvements throughout the app.

New in LuckNews 3.2 (Jun 6, 2017)

  • Several small fixes to improve user interactions

New in LuckNews 3.1.2 (Apr 13, 2016)

  • Fixes a crash.

New in LuckNews 3.1.1 (Feb 17, 2016)

  • fixes a performance issue when the article list contains a great many articles
  • fixes a crash that happens at midnight, if the window had been closed
  • support keyboard navigation in the articles list

New in LuckNews 3.1 (Feb 5, 2016)

  • This is a minor update, addressing several small issues.

New in LuckNews 3.0.1 (Sep 25, 2015)

  • A minor update, addressing:
  • a memory leak
  • a fix to be able to read the content from a malformed subscription
  • allow all subscriptions to be removed

New in LuckNews 3.0 (Feb 26, 2015)

  • LuckNews is now free and comes with unlimited subscription capacity
  • There is a new, faster data model being used
  • The user interface has many improvements

New in LuckNews 2.0.6 (Nov 25, 2013)

  • Added an Activity window
  • Improved how the application saves its changes to its database
  • Improved the in-app purchase receipt handling code to be more robust
  • Fixed a problem when parsing dates in some subscriptions
  • Improved the Article update process
  • Improved the performance of subscription refresh
  • Other minor changes

New in LuckNews 2.0.5 (Nov 2, 2013)

  • Changes to get LuckNews working on Mavericks.
  • Fix for a problem when displaying articles as HTML in some European languages. Accented characters were not being displayed properly for some text encodings.
  • Other minor changes.

New in LuckNews 2.0.4 (Sep 7, 2013)

  • Changes to help improve the performance of large Subscription/Article databases
  • Fixes a bug with Notification Center integration related to the window being closed or minimized
  • Other minor changes

New in LuckNews 2.0.3 (Jul 4, 2013)

  • Fixes a bug where a subscription containing articles which had absolutely no content would cause a problem when updating the database
  • Improvements to OPML import. Google Reader is providing some interesting data, which is now handled
  • Subscriptions imported from OPML which refer to invalid feeds are now imported rather than being ignored. I decided it was better to let the user deal with this error rather than ignoring the errors
  • Improved the article deletion rules

New in LuckNews 2.0.2 (Jun 25, 2013)

  • Improvements to swiping and the page transitions
  • Improvements to the new 'show newest article' mode when selecting a new subsription (or set of subscriptions)
  • Improvements to article refresh to avoid duplicated articles
  • Improvements to the context menu displayed in the Article view
  • Found another subscription which provided malformed dates. They are now handled
  • Other minor changes

New in LuckNews 2.0.1 (May 31, 2013)

  • Fixed a crash which could happen after a refresh of the subscriptions in rare cases
  • Added a preference to choose which article to show when a new subscription (or set of subscriptions) is selected: most recently read or newest
  • Improved the interaction while swiping between articles
  • Added a context menu to the article viewer pane (option click to view.)
  • Other minor changes

New in LuckNews 2.0 (Apr 26, 2013)

  • Features:
  • Moved to the In-App purchase model to purchase capacity for more than 8 subscriptions. This makes the application free to all users who require 8 or fewer subscriptions. Additional capacity can be purchased easily, cheaply and quickly in two increments: up to 20 or an unlimited number
  • Improved the startup performance when LuckNews has a large number of articles in its database
  • Bug fixes:
  • Fixed a problem reported when displaying HTML on a article which had a URL which was redirected to a new site
  • Fixed a problem with the assigned font/font size when switching between viewing HTML and normal articles
  • Several other minor fixes
  • Other minor changes.

New in LuckNews 1.2.3 (Apr 9, 2013)

  • Article Search. Quickly search for articles which contain keywords
  • View Articles as either full HTML web pages or in a more standard news format
  • Cache images to be able to read without a network. (On a plane? On a train? In a boat?)
  • Many smaller improvements in all areas of the application
  • Allow manual control of refresh time to small intervals (see online documentation for more information.)
  • Provide a preference for whether or not links you click that are opened in the browser activates the browser (gives it focus)
  • Bug fixes

New in LuckNews 1.2.2 (Mar 13, 2013)

  • Article Search. Quickly search for articles which contain keywords
  • View Articles as either full HTML web pages or in a more standard news format
  • Cache images to be able to read without a network. (On a plane? On a train? In a boat?)
  • Many smaller improvements in all areas of the application
  • Allow manual control of refresh time to small intervals (see online documentation for more information.)
  • Bug fixes

New in LuckNews 1.2.1 (Feb 26, 2013)

  • Article Search. Quickly search for articles which contain keywords
  • View Articles as either full HTML web pages or in a more standard news format
  • Cache images to be able to read without a network. (On a plane? On a train? In a boat?)
  • Many smaller improvements in all areas of the application
  • Bug fixes

New in LuckNews 1.2 (Feb 20, 2013)

  • Article Search. Quickly search for articles which contain keywords
  • View Articles as either full HTML web pages or in a more standard news format
  • Cache images to be able to read without a network.
  • Many smaller improvements in all areas of the application

New in LuckNews 1.1 (Jan 11, 2013)

  • This release addresses two defects that were found related to unusual RSS and Atom subscription content.